Koinonia

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Koinonia (koy-nohn-eé-ah) is a transliterated form of the Greek word, ????????, which means communion, joint participation; the share which one has in anything, participation, a gift jointly contributed, a collection, a contribution, etc. It identifies the idealized state of fellowship and unity that should exist within the Christian church, the Body of Christ.

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New Testament usage

The essential meaning of the koinonia embraces concepts conveyed in the English terms community, communion, joint participation, sharing and intimacy. Koinonia can therefore refer in some contexts to a jointly contributed gift. The word appears 19 times in most editions of the Greek New Testament. In the New American Standard Bible, it is translated "fellowship" twelve times, "sharing" three times, and "participation" and "contribution" twice each.

The first usage of koinonia in the Greek New Testament is found in Acts 2:42-47.

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Sacramental meaning

The Eucharist is the sacrament of communion with one another in the one body of Christ. This was the full meaning of eucharistic koinonia in the early Catholic Church. St. Thomas Aquinas wrote, "the Eucharist is the sacrament of the unity of the Church, which results from the fact that many are one in Christ."

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See also

• Communion (Christian)
• Koinonia Partners (formerly Koinonia Farm), an intentional community founded on principles of koinonia

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References

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Further reading

• Lewis-Elgidely, Verna. Koinonia in the Three Great Abrahamic Faiths: Acclaiming the Mystery and Diversity of Faiths, Cloverdale Books, 2007. ISBN 978-1-929569-37-3
• Life Ventures, Gary H. Hauk, Director, Publishing, LifeWay Church Resources, 2012. ISBN 978-1-4300-0975-7

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Bibliography

• NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries. The Lockman Foundation. 1998 [1981]. 
• Bromiley, Geoffrey W. (1979). The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 
• Lynch, Robert Porter; Ninon Prozonic (2006). "How the Greeks created the First Golden Age of Innovation" (Word document). p. 14. Retrieved 2007-04-08. 
• Richards, Lawrence O. (1985). Expository Dictionary of Bible Words. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Corporation. 
• Thayer, Joseph H. (1885). Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House. 

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External links

• Lexicon entry for koinonia, common domain

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